Chiara Liso did her BA in Foreign Languages and Literature (Lingue e letterature straniere) at the Università of Bologna and Trinity College Dublin. She completed her MA in General and Comparative Literature (Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft) at Freie Universität Berlin with a thesis on the concept of polarity and Jewish thought in Paul Celan’s Ilana Cycle.

Since October 2022 Chiara Liso has been a member of both the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies and the EXC “Temporal Communities”, where she works as a doctoral researcher in Research Area 4: “Literary Currencies”.

Current research includes an EXC 2020 project, "Heimat Babel: Heimat and Language in Post-German Poetry from 1989 to the Present” (2022-).